Noun : Your reply was a dandy. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : a dandy vacation spot. From Dictionary.com.
Yet the idealism implicit in his project, which, I have suggested, runs parallel to dandyism, is complicated by the awareness that the. From Wordnik.com. [Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef] Reference
He has no mercy on snobbism, flunkeyism, or dandyism. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
Mr. Horne was rather inclined to dandyism, in an innocent way. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of all countries] Reference
He certainly would not wear anything that might suggest dandyism. From Wordnik.com. [A Christmas Bride]
As such, the 1880s and 1890s found dandyism once more of good repute. From Wordnik.com. [The Dandy | Edwardian Promenade] Reference
If we are irritated by the dancing-master dandyism which made him write. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
The traces of dandyism were more clearly preserved in Kuzma Vassilyevitch. From Wordnik.com. [Lieutenant Yergunov's Story] Reference
It is vain to profess to one's own heart a complaisant dandyism of misanthropy. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He began to save money and to develop at the same time an inexpensive dandyism. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
But we were both cured, certainly, for the time, of any love of display or dandyism!. From Wordnik.com. [My Young Days] Reference
They could promote dandyism to a fine art and win immortality by perfecting the rôle. From Wordnik.com. [The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1] Reference
He detects the dandyism behind the Dada gestures and is not ruffled by raucous noises. From Wordnik.com. [The D-S Expedition: Part I] Reference
Michael Brendan Daugherty at Surfeited with Dainties has posted a stirring defense of dandyism. From Wordnik.com. [Around the Web] Reference
Not being hip swashbuckling and dandyism predate hipness by centuries, I have a hard time telling. From Wordnik.com. [BSNYC Funday Fry Quiz!] Reference
What made the transformation possible was the presence of that gentlemanly dandyism in both usages. From Wordnik.com. [Dude, Where's My Dude ? Dudelicious Dissection, From Sontag to Spicoli] Reference
Besides that, I'm given to foppishness and dandyism and always feel like I'm showing off when I dress up. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
"Shut your mouth, you tyrant," said he, forgetting his dandyism in the recollection of his former suffering. From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
In this prime of dandyism, he took up a nasty, oily, dirty hog-tool, and immortalised Copenhagen by touching the sky. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Be patient, wait, reflect, chasten your taste by study, and wean yourself from that hankering after prettiness and dandyism. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
“Camp David” tag cars and bikes club fine court cases dandyism early career early life and school earnings engagement of. From Wordnik.com. [Posh & Becks] Reference
And he declares that he delivered the answer with a self-possession worthy of a Brummel or 'any other celebrity of dandyism.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Osacr Wilde's wife, and Oscar Wilde himself ironically, given his reputation for dandyism were proponents of sensible dress for women. From Wordnik.com. [Dust Ho! - A Dress A Day] Reference
He had gone into the minutiae of dandyism, while poor La Briere was about to present himself with the negligence of a man without hope. From Wordnik.com. [Modeste Mignon] Reference
"And you could go on to argue that their particular kind of dandyism was socially conservative and even contributed to the Thatcher mood. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
The true Parisian! he had put as much dandyism into his dress as if he were in the chateau of the noble lady then travelling in Scotland. From Wordnik.com. [Eug�nie Grandet] Reference
Mr Mastyk was a squat man with a square head that looked hardly European, dressed with a heavy dandyism that seemed rather too consciously. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
His precocity and dandyism were established well before the loss of his father, Frank, in the Battle of Ypres, when Christopher was eleven. From Wordnik.com. [Darling Me] Reference
The town people make fun of his goofiness and his dandyism. From Wordnik.com. [Top Headlines] Reference
His artistic dandyism had been harshly treated by that scramble. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond] Reference
= Osric =, a court fop, contemptible for his affectation and finical dandyism. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3] Reference
"Observe, again," said the narrator, "that dashing young fellow, arrayed in the first style of dandyism.". From Wordnik.com. [Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)] Reference
He had begun by being amused with Wales's dandyism and extravagance, and had ended in encouraging him in them. From Wordnik.com. [Tom, Dick and Harry] Reference
His original style was often referred as dandyism although Brummell, surely, would not have agreed to the description. From Wordnik.com. [EzineArticles] Reference
Thus happy in the approval of his family, the young Count made a spirited beginning in the perilous and costly ways of dandyism. From Wordnik.com. [The Jealousies of a Country Town] Reference
Mr. Kermode's critics sometimes faulted him for a deliberately difficult style and what Mr. Lodge called "intellectual dandyism.". From Wordnik.com. [GoodShit] Reference
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